[Ppnews] Freedom for Gary Freeman

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Freedom for Gary Freeman Vigil

Join Family & Friends of Gary Freeman and 
<http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/>No One Is Illegal in a Freedom 
for Gary Freeman Vigil on Thursday, September 6, 5:30 - 7pm, in front 
of the United States Consulate (360 University Avenue, north of Queen 
Street West).

Gary Freeman has lived the past 30+ years in Canada. Married to a 
Canadian, together they have raised a son and three daughters to be 
respected young adults. A mentor and friend to the young and old, 
Gary has always promoted social justice and viewed every human being 
as worthy of respect.

It concerns us that after 35 years, Gary, an African-American man who 
escaped the U.S. after facing racial persecution, should face return 
to Chicago at the hands of a police department recently implicated in 
torture by the infamous Burge report. The report by special Chicago 
prosecutors belatedly appointed to investigate charges of police 
torture in the Chicago South Side district confirmed Chicago police 
tortured and brutalized African-American men for more than 20 years.

Yet, despite the confirmation by internal investigations of horrific 
atrocities committed against African-American men, none of the police 
responsible for hundreds of acts of torture will face prosecution for 
using illegal techniques like electrical shocks to the genitals, 
Russian roulette, suffocation and mock executions (among others). 
Prosecutors claim these crimes against humanity cannot be prosecuted 
because the cases are too old and the statue of limitations has 
expired. Some of the police officers involved have been promoted and 
are still with the same Chicago police department.

Yet, Chicago seeks the extradition of Gary Freeman who is a victim of 
racial and political persecution for an incident which took place in 
this same South Side district of Chicago in 1969. He has always 
maintained his innocence, and there is a litany of missing and 
mishandled evidence. He was a victim of police brutality and he came 
to Canada because he didn't want to die - he came to Canada to 
survive. Gary too was a victim of Chicago police brutality and racism 
in 1969 on the streets of Chicago.

We demand freedom for Gary Freeman!

Freedom for Gary Freeman Vigil

Thursday, September 6, 2007
5:30 - 7pm

United States Consulate
360 University Avenue (north of Queen Street West)

Stop the Extradition of Gary Freeman!

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